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Page 53 of 791922 · PDF PAGE 26
…lled off. I went out as if the devil were at my heels. | I remember practically nothing of the next half- hour. I felt a kind of forlorn sense of being lost in a world of incredibly stupid and malicious dwarfs. I found myself in Piccadilly quite suddenly. A voice purred in my ear, ‘ Good old Peter, good old sport, awfully glad I met you—we'll make a night of it.” The speaker was a handsome Welshman still in his prime. Some people thought him one of the best sculptors living. He had, in fact, a following of dis- ciples which I can only qualify a…
1922 · PDF PAGE 67
Au Pays de Cocaine 53 most early Victorian sense of the word you can imagine. She was not only a true friend, but a wise friend. She had evidently foreseen that we were going to run short of good old snow. Now I want all you fellows to take it as read that a man, if he calls himself a man, isn’t the kind of man that wants to stop a honeymoon with a girl in a Japanese kimono of the variety described, to have to put on a lot of beastly clothes and hunt all around Paris for a dope peddler. Of course, you'll say at once that I could have rung for t…
1922 · PDF PAGE 132
…red. But it’s a long way between that and admitting that their hallucinations have any basis in fact. I had been in their silly world of sense a million years or so ago, when I was Peter Pendragon. But why recall the painful past? Of course, one doesn’t come to one’s full strength in a minute. Take the case of an eagle. What is it as long as it’s in the egg? Nothing but an egg with possibilities. And the first day it’s hatched you don’t expect it to fly to Neptune and back. Certainly not ! But every day, in every way, it gets better and better.…
1930 · PDF PAGE 47
…ons as our purblind conception of convenience induces us to fabricate. The student will observe from the above that divination is in one sense an art entirely separate from that of Magick; y et it interpénétrâtes Magick at every point. The fundamental laws of both are identical. The right use of divination has already been explained; but it must be added that proficiency therein, tremendous as is its importance in furnishing the Magician with the information necessary to his strategical and tactical plans, in no wise enables him to accomplish t…
1930 · PDF PAGE 113
…e, let him build a wall between himself and them according to the method. 6. Thus having stilled the voices of the Six, may he obtain in sense the subtlety of the Seventh. 7- ATMrN. (We add the following, contributed by a friend at that time without the A.-. A .'. and its dépendent orders. He worked out the method himself, and we think it may prove useful to many. O. M.). i. The beginner must first practise breathing regularly through the nose, at the same time trying hard to believe that the breath goes to the Ajna and not to the lungs. The Pr…
1996 · PDF PAGE 132
Chapter II A Verses 58-60 133 This passage may perhaps be interpreted in a sense slightly dif ferent from that assumed in the above paragraph. We should indeed love all—is not the Law “love under will”? By this I mean that we should make proper contact with all, for love means union; and the proper condition of union is determined by will. Consider the right attitude to adopt in the matter of cholera. One should love it, that is, study it intimately; not otherwise can one be sure of maintaining the right relation with it, which is, not to allo…
1930 · PDF PAGE 62
… of mind déterminant of a certain habit of body which is nowise identical with what is commonly understood. Chastity in the true magical sense of the word is inconceivable to those who are not wholly emancipated from the obsession of sex. — 182 —
1930 · PDF PAGE 72
…ccepted excuses, which she does not. If you drink poison in mistake for wine, your “mistake” will not save your life. Below these in one sense, yet far above them in another, are the Brothers of the Left Hand Path L These are they who “shut themselves up”, who refuse their blood to the Cup, who hâve trampled Love in the Race for self-aggrandisement. As far as the grade of Exempt Adept, they are en the same path as the White Brotherhood; for until that grade is attained, the goal is not disclosed. Then only are the goats, the lonely leaping moun…
1954 · PDF PAGE 258
…en years a-killing' winding up by hanging, disembowelling, and quartering him. But of course I'm not necessarily right about this in any sense; it is merely that I happened to be born the kind of man that feels like that!" Of course, in no case does the Golden Mean advise hesitating, trimming, hedging, compromising; the very object of ensuring an exact balance in your weapon is that its blow may be clean and certain. You know how all our faults love to disguise themselves as virtues; very often, as what our neighbours call virtues, not what we …
1939 · PDF PAGE 29
…rst volume of ", in the first number: "We place no reliance On Virgin or Pigeon; Our method is science, Our aim is religion." Our common sense, guided by experience based on observation, will be sufficient. 2. We have seen that the Yogic process is implicit in every phenomenon of existence. All that we have to do is to extend it
1996 · PDF PAGE 102
…ith power to multiply and to perpetuate that particular Nature, though without necessary consciousness of what is happening. In a deeper sense, the word “Death” is meaningless apart from the presentation of the Universe as conditioned by “Time.” But what is the meaning of Time? There is great confusion of thought in the use of the word “eternal,” and the phrase “for ever.” People who want “eternal happiness” mean by that a cycle of varying events all effective in stimulating pleasant sensations; i.e., they want time to continue exactly as it do…
1922 · PDF PAGE 92
…way to dig it out is cocaine. But don’t you go and forget what I hope you won't mind my calling ordinary prudence. Use a little - common sense, use precaution, exercise good judgment. However hungry you may happen to be, you don’t want to eat a dozen oxen en brochette. Natura non facit saltum. It’s only a question of applying knowledge in a reasonable manner. We had found out how to work the machine, and there was no reason in the world why we shouldn’t fly from here to Kalamazoo. So I took three quite small sniffs at reasonable intervals, and …
1930 · PDF PAGE 32
…he most terrifie penalties by his presumption. 7. The Order of the R. C. The Grade of the Babe of the Abyss is not a Grade in the proper sense, being rather a passage between the two Orders. Its characteristics are wholly négative, as it is attained by the résolve of the Adeptus Exemptus to surren- der ail that he has and is for ever. It is an annihilation of ail the bonds that compose the self or constitute the Cosmos, a résolution of ail complexities into their éléments, and these thereby cease to manifest, since things are only knowable in r…
1954 · PDF PAGE 249
…ove definition . Their only refuge is in "superconsciousness." Splendid! but now 'belief has disappeared altogether; for the word has no sense unless it is subject to the laws of normal thought ... Tut! you must be feeling it yourself ; the further one goes, the darker the path. All I have written is somehow muddled and obscure, maugre my frenzied struggle for lucidity, simplicity . . . Is this the fault of my own sophistication? I asked myself. Tell you what! I'll trot round to my masseuse, and put it up to her. She is a simple country soul, b…
1996 · PDF PAGE 108
…ot harm ye at all. It is a lie, this folly against self. The exposure of innocence is a lie. Be strong, o man! lust, enjoy all things of sense and rapture: fear not that any God shall deny thee for this. Commentary: Drunkenness is a curse and a hindrance only to slaves. Shelley’s couriers were “drunk on the wind of their own
1996 · PDF PAGE 177
…ho are to punish her for the crime of denying Her nature, not men who are to redeem her, since, as above remarked, it is man’s own false sense of guilt, his selfishness, and his cowardice, which originally forced her to blaspheme against herself, and so degraded her in her own eyes, and in his. Let him attend to his own particular business, to redeem himself—he has surely his hands full! Woman will save herself if she be but left alone to do it. I see it! I, the Beast, who have seen—who see—Space splendid with stars; who have seen—who see—the B…
1929 · PDF PAGE 535
…cause, until one is very advanced indeed, one is not aware of the aberration caused by the error of the instrument. Even in the world of sense, similar troubles occur. To a man who is colour-blind, the red light is "really" green --- beyond his power to make any correction, because the source of his error is in the instrument of sight itself. He might well say, "But if, as you tell me, this green lamp is red, how do I know that it is a lamp, not a tiger? I have only my eyes to depend on." I found it impossible to persuade even the most intellig…
1922 · PDF PAGE 98
… “Yes, I see that,’’ I replied brightly. ‘“ Of course, I don’t know the first thing about finance; but what you say is absolutely common sense. And I’ve got a sort of flair for these things, I believe.’ “Why, it’s very curious you should say that,” returned Feccles, as in great surprise. ‘ I was thinking the same thing myself. We know you've got pluck, and that’s the first essential in any game. And making money is the greatest game there is. But beside that, I’ve got a hunch that you've got the right kind of brain for this business. You're as …
1922 · PDF PAGE 369
Love under Will 355 my good sense, confirmed by my experience, urged me to surrender. “But how did you find out what your will was?” “How did you find out ?” she flashed back. “Why,” I stammered, ‘ Big Lion showed me how my heredity, my natural inclination, and the solution of my crisis, all pointed to the same thing.” “You said it,”’ she answered softly, and fired another quotation. ‘‘ The Law is for all.” “Tell me about it,” I said. My stupefaction and my annoyance were melting away. I began to perceive dimly that the Big Lion had worked out …
1907 · PDF PAGE 150
…sum the many hours In many hopes and powers, All powers except the chief. Emotion fills our souls, And love delights us well, And joy of sense full rolls ; But leads us, and controls Life’s céntral citadel. Whence we were drawn who knows? Of law or Gods or chance? But, as life’s river flows, What Sea shall clasp and close Beyond }lind circumstance? Such little power we own Of vague experience, And instinct to enthrone The life’s mere needs alone, Nor answer © why” and ‘‘ whence.” Nor wandering in the night Our minds may apprehend Reflecting in …